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The Real Elizabeth

An Intimate Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

by Andrew Marr
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign Elizabeth II, one of England's longest-reigning monarchs, is an enigma. In public, she confines herself to optimistic pieties and guarded...
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Unbeaten

Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World

by Mike Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

From the bestselling author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of Rocky Marciano, the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. The son of poor Italian immigrants, with short arms and stubby legs, Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary heavyweight champions...
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Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems....
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Ten Innings at Wrigley

The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink

by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history It was a Thursday at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected...
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If Aristotle Ran General Motors

The New Soul of Business

by Tom Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

What does classical philosophy have to offer modern business? Nothing less than the secrets to building great morale and productivity in any size organization. This is the message that Tom Morris will deliver this year to thousands of executives of leading companies such as Merrill Lynch, Coca...
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Holacracy

The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

by Brian J. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015

Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader. Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast,...
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Siege

Trump Under Fire

by Michael Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. Just one year into Donald Trump’s term as president, Michael Wolff told the electrifying story of a White House consumed by controversy, chaos,...
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The Intelligent Entrepreneur

How Three Harvard Business School Graduates Learned the 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship

by Bill Murphy Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010

Written with the cooperation of Harvard Business School, an instructive and inspiring book for anyone who dreams of starting a highly profitable business In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates—two men and one woman—turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves,...
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When to Jump

If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want

by Mike Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

“A lively and inspiring guidebook for anyone who wants to make the jump from normal to extraordinary.” —Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Unshakeable and MONEY: Master the Game An inspirational book that lays out the “Jump Curve”—four steps to wholeheartedly...
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A First-Class Catastrophe

The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

by Diana B. Henriques
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed--from the bestselling author of The Wizard of Lies Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent – almost twice as bad...
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Merchants in the Temple

Inside Pope Francis's Secret Battle Against Corruption in the Vatican

by Gianluigi Nuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the Vatican A veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis’s strong message for one church of the poor and all;...
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Secrecy World

Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

by Jake Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from...
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Blockbusters

Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment

by Anita Elberse
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Why the future of popular culture will revolve around ever bigger bets on entertainment products, by one of Harvard Business School's most popular professors What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Entertainment, and the NFL—along with...
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The Perfect Scent

A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

by Chandler Burr
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008

From the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider's view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents. No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a...
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